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Vase. Grey stoneware with white crackle glaze, with applied lion mask terminals and loop handles. The vase is tall, cylindrical and slender with a very short neck and flat everted mouth rim, narrow shoulders tapering to the footrim and a recessed, flat, glazed base. The lion mask and ring terminals are applied to the shoulders and are covered all-over in cream/white crackle glaze.
History note: Purchased from Sotheby's, 2 November 1933, Catalogue of European & Oriental Porcelain..., for £6.0s.0d; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.
Diameter: 15.1 cm
Height: 41.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
Circa
1368
-
1644
Decoration
cream/white crackle glaze
Glaze
Stoneware
Throwing : Stoneware, white crackled glazed vase with applied lion mask terminals and loop handles
Inscription present: round, white, serrated label
Accession number: C.645-1991
Primary reference Number: 21103
Old object number: CHICER/273
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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